With chiropractic care, there are different phases, including relief care and corrective care. During the relief care phase, your chiropractor might want to take X-rays to see what’s truly going on with your spine. Then he or she might come up with a plan to make adjustments to correct the misalignments found in the spine. Relief care typically happens when you’re in pain and at the office seeking some relief from that pain. Later on, perhaps days or weeks down the line, you then move to corrective care.

According to AmericanSpinal.com, at least 80% of people experience low back pain some time in their lives. While low back pain can occur at any age, it’s most prevalent with people in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. Who is most likely to get low back pain? Generally, it’s people who live sedentary lifestyles or people who do “back-breaking” manual labor.

Some people try various drugs to relieve their back pain. Others choose to visit chiropractors like Dr. Barker at New City Chiropractic in Lakeland, Florida. A good chiropractor can help a person heal their low back pain over time…

Certain people seem to have sinus problems. Sinuses are actually eight hollow spaces located in the bones of a person’s forehead, cheeks and temples. Normal sinuses have sticky mucus in their linings which act as filters to keep dust, dirt and pollutants out of the lungs, kidneys and blood. When sinuses work well, they do a fine job of protecting your body from toxins.

Sometimes, though, a person gets a sinus infection. When this happens, the linings become inflamed. Tissues create an overabundance of mucus, and drainage is blocked. If you’ve ever experienced sinus problems, you know that you feel…

Someone who tries to eat a gluten-free diet wants to avoid ingesting the proteins found in wheat. So, they’ll avoid foods with ingredients like durum, semolina, spelt, farro, rye and barley. That means they’ll be looking for gluten-free noodles, breads, crackers, cereal, sauces, tortillas, and beer. Basically anything that uses “wheat flour” in the mix is not good for someone who is intolerant regarding gluten.

Have you heard of Celiac Disease? Gluten is made of two proteins– gliadin and glutenin. Some people have negative reactions to gliadin. Imagine your insides being filled with glue– that’s kind of what happens when…

Inflammation leads to pressure and then pain. Many of us deal with this in one way or another every single day of our lives, from headaches to backaches and then some. While a lot of us head straight to pills to temporarily relieve pain, there are also many people who would rather avoid putting pills into their body. Can the body heal itself, naturally? Time and time again, it has, it can and it will. Chiropractors believe this and they help it happen by using their hands as well as their knowledge of the body’s systems and internal parts,…

If you’ve ever played a game of tennis, you know that you use your arms (and a racket) in order to hit/return the tennis ball across the court to the other side. The repeated and intense motion tennis players use can sometimes lead to tennis elbow, which is a term used to describe pain on the outside of a person’s elbow.

To get more scientific, tennis elbow generally occurs when the tendon of the wrist extensor muscles experience inflammation at the point where they insert into the elbow. People who play tennis, as well as other sports, can get tennis…

Besides back pain, shoulder pain is one of the most common things people experience at some time in their lives. You have shoulder pain if you have a hard time using your arm and/or carrying objects around. If the pain has been persistent for a week, or it’s recurring even though it had seemed to settle down a while back, then you might want to consider making an appointment at New City Chiropractic Center for some relief.

Does your shoulder ache at night? Can you raise your arm or not? Have you noticed swelling or bruising at your shoulders? Most…

We put a lot of pressure on our knees. The heavier we are– weight-wise– the more pressure our knees endure. Research has shown that for each pound of body weight lost, there’s a four pound reduction in knee joint stress. So, losing weight helps lighten the load on your knee joints.

Our knees matter, because we use them for everyday activities, from getting out of bed to climbing stairs and anything else which involves bending, walking or full body movement.

If and when you experience knee pain then you know how awful it feels. For some people, they decide to live…

Arthritis is a word commonly mentioned by senior citizens because they have it and they don’t like it. The “arth” part means joint, while the “itis” means inflammation of; so arthritis is the inflammation of a joint in the body. Inflammation makes the joint swell. It gets red and hot. That swelling creates pressure, which then creates pain. If ignored, the joint may suffer permanent damage. The sooner someone can alleviate the inflammation the better. Otherwise, a chain of events inside your body occurs whereas you end up aching something awful.

Frozen Shoulder sounds like the name of a rock band, but it’s actually the common name for a condition known by doctors as “adhesive capsulitis.” How do you know if you have frozen shoulder? Well, it’s something that takes time to develop, starting out as stiffness and pain in your shoulder joint. Over time it tends to worsen and then get better, and may take one to three years to do so. Those who’ve suffered from a stroke and/or mastectomy (or other medical conditions preventing you from moving your arm) are more likely to get frozen shoulder.